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Wild Buckwheat (Fallopia convolvulus, synonyms: Polygonum convolvulus) is a species of knotweed family (Polygonaceae). The ribbed stems winds to the dial clockwise to many things around that may provide support. If this support is not found lying horizontal stems. The length is 30-100 mm. Wild Buckwheat is very common on farmland, wasteland and in the dunes.

The leaves are triangular to heart shaped. They langgesteeld and pointed. The underside is often powdery white.

The flowers are greenish white. The outer parts of the perianth are winged or gekield.De bindweed flower spike from July to October.

Wild Buckwheat has dull black fruits with a diameter of 4-5 mm. These are enclosed by a persistent perianth. The fruit is a small nut.

Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwaluwtong

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The Meadow Fescue flowers from June to September with upright, rather narrow, 10-20 cm long feathers, the spikelets more or less turned to one side. Only during the bloom, the vast plume. The lower node of the inflorescence usually has two branches, the shortest one to three spikelets and contributes the longest three to six. Submit Thread to the 9-17 mm long and usually contains seven or eight, yellow-green or purple spotted flowers. The lower kelkkafje is approximately 3 mm long and the upper 4.6 mm. The lower husk (lemma) is 6-7 mm long and with or without a 1.5 mm long Awn. The top husk has almost the same length as the bottom and a fringed top. The red dirt helmet boxes are about 4 mm long.

The plant is found in grassland on wet to wet, rich soil.

Meadow fescue is a forage grass, but is usually a mixture especially under grazing omstandighede not compete with English ryegrass (Lolium perenne), which can be quickly suppressed. Among the species can only reap better maintained. The races are to shoot them by date (the date of the first-desk is just visible) into a pasture and hay type. The pasture types have a somewhat flatter growth than the hay types.

Meadow fescue can be affected by the leaf blight (Drechslera dictyoides, synonym: Helminthosporium dictyoides var. Phlei).

In other languages:

•    German: Wiesenschwingel

•    English: Meadow Fescue

•    French: Fetuque des pres

Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beemdlangbloem

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Spotted orchid (Dactylorhiza maculata subsp. Maculata) is a plant belonging to the orchid family (Orchidaceae). The plant is on the Dutch Red List of plants as relatively rare and has fallen sharply. The plant is protected by law. The spotted orchid is native to Eurasia.

The spotted orchid is similar to the bosorchis (Dactylorhiza maculata subsp. Fuchsii). In the lower flower is bosorchis slip deeply three-lobed with the middle lobe as wide as the side lobes. Also, the lower stem leaves broadest above the middle and the top is not pointed but blunt.

It is a 30-50 cm tall perennial plant with a tuber without rosette. The plant flowers in June and July with light lilac to whitish, bilaterally symmetrical flowers. The flower is a dark purple honey brand. The lip is three lobed shallow. Zijslippen the point indirectly. The middle lobe is much narrower than the triangular and side lobes. The rail is tubular. Inflorescence a spike.

The green, amplexicaul, lanceolate leaves are mottled and dull green underneath. The leaves are 6-10 cm long and 1-2 cm wide. The lower stem leaves are the widest in the middle and is quite pointed.

The spotted orchid fine dust spreads via seed. The fine seed germinates and food does not contain a reserve only if a root fungus (mycorrhiza) it penetrates. To survive, this plant relies on a symbiosis with a soil fungus.

It grows on moderately fertile, moist to wet soil in meadows, on heaths and in the dunes.

Names in other languages:

German: Geflecktes Knabe Kraut

English: Heath Spotted Orchid

French: Orchis tachete

Source: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gevlekte_orchis

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